• Polderviking@feddit.nl
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    I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.

    Anybody who asks me about Windows 10’s EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i’ll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops to stick with Windows.

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      44 minutes ago

      paper thin security advantages.

      And loads of highly intrusive, unremovable, anti-user bullshit.

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    “Trade it in or recycle it” basically means “your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill”.

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    Use Linux. And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option. Its actually way ahead than Windows or Macos

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      And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option.

      It is a viable option, especially for old hardware. I mainly don’t use it because I want to install an OS exactly once: When the computer is brand new. This is exactly when some shit is not working properly on Linux. But if you have old hardware, it will run no problems. Just install Ubuntu and Libre Office on it, pray that you get the printer set up, done.

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        “pray you get the printer set up” is more of a windows thing. For ten years, over three versions of windows, I couldn’t get printing to work reliably. Switched to Linux, no problems since

        Also, the new hardware thing is not really true anymore. Most things are supported from the get-go, or at least within a few weeks

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    I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can’t run any autodesk products on Linux atm… Revit, Autocad… Sad noises

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    They just try to force people to buy another PC and so many “computer ignorant” people will…poor old ladies who click on the ads…

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      i’ve been on linux on and off since 1998, however I fully switched about 5 years ago and never looked back.

      I was curious around 3 months ago, between distro swapping and I installed W11. It lasted 2h until I rage installed linux and took me an entire day to wash the windows taste off. bleah…

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    Hold on to your butts.

    Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

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    I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….

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      I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4’s in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.

      Microsoft: “Just throw it away, bro.” Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.

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    11 hours ago

    end of support for windows 10

    beginning of support for linux mint

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      Yeah, my old desktop computer is getting turned into my first dedicated Linux machine and my current desktop isn’t getting updated to 11 until October 13th.

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        i just switched my laptop to mint and my desktop is next :) surprisingly so many “windows only” steam games run perfectly fine in linux

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            and really i wouldn’t want to play those ones anyway :)